Jan Yip

“There were jam sandwiches - naturally - cold chicken, slices of potato pie. And on the sweets table were cinnamon biscuits, Ephraim's carrot fudge, fruit scones, rock buns. What caught my eye most were the foods I didn't know, made by our Austrian visitors: the flat bread, the shredded cabbage in vinegar, the dark, dense cake dusted with icing sugar, and the apple pie that was oblong rather than round, and whose pastry crackled when you cut it.”
― Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse

“Jane Welsh Carlyle says in one of her letters, "One can never be too much alive to the consideration that one's every slightest action does not end when it has acted itself but propagates itself on and on, in one shape or another, through all time and away into eternity.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“You've got to be a little bit greedy to be a good cook - I mean you've got to appreciate good food yourself - but even if I didn't like cooking very much I would enjoy cooking for Bunny.”
― D.E. Stevenson, The Musgraves

“She was about to discover that lost things often reappear when they're no longer being looked for . . . and then, much closer than expected.”
― Abi Elphinstone, Winter Magic